I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

When we begin to view our experiences through the lens of gratitude, our heart, mind and spirit naturally expand.

We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.

Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

My cholesterol count has a comma.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.