I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame on the darkness in broad daylight.

Vulnerability is what heals us.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Yes I'm grown and sexy, and I'm worth the wait. Girls act like I'm the only dude on earth to date.

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.