"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground."

"Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt."

"My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds."

"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."

"The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led."

"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."

"HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip."

"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."

"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples."