"Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black."

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."

"A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun."

"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."

"Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

"Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed a good idea at the time.'"

"Absent in body, but present in spirit."

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."

"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."