Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

A state is a perfect body of free men united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Education has all the vowels in English. Unquestionably, it is not the only word.

Beauty is fleeting. But the woman who fear God is blissful.

Self confidence. Let's fight the demon that make us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it.

I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.