I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

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.

Action is king, but wisdom is queen.

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.