If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.

Love is a struggle, hard to get and hard to leave.

Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.