Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.

Be aware for there is a snare ready for a serpent

When you allow yourself the abilityto challenge your doubts, to embraceyour deepest and darkest fears, that is when you learn how to bea healer and hero in your own life story~bns

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

I don't have one regret.

A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.