How much easier is it to be generous than just.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life

Accept yourself for the person you are, for all the mistakes you did and also for the transformation you’re about to experience in the future. Love your future version from this moment.

I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.