It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

I love the healthy exchange of information.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.