"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy."

"I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the strength of a community lies in its compassion."