It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

There is nothing prettier in thewhole wide world than a girlin lovewith every breath she takes.

Women are better than men in handling their emotions, that is why every happy girl is not happy.

We are what we think. Think great, be great.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.