"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."

"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"

"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.… No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do."

"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."

"I like death. I'm a big fan of it."

"What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?"

"It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead."