"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people."

"God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out."

"Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved."

"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is."

"Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious."

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen."