"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change."

"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."

"Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now."

"Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."