Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

some of the best music was composed by Beethovan, but he was deaf, some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton, but he was deaf.possible is always inside the impossible...

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.