“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”

“If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like 5 minutes. If you are doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, 5 minutes feels like an hour.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Let not your heart be offended with anyone… Beware! Beware! lest ye offend any heart.”

“The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.”

“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”