An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.

To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow.

F**king dance whenever you want to dance.

It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.