"Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions."

“You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.”

“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”

“In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."”

Source : The Time of Your Life (1939)

“What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.”

“I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy word. I beseech you, remember (it is an article of your church covenant) that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the word of God.”

“No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”

Source : 'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 16

“This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.”

“As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.