Ministers and merchants love nobody.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Come discover how astonishingit is to unravel your own blossoming.

Together forever, never apart. Sometimes in distance, but never in heart.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.