A quiet mind cureth all.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

Life like two broken hands trying to pick flowers for someone you really like.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

I'm not a mediator or a negotiator. I don't want to be one.

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

The threat of taking something away makes us appreciate it more.