Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

Your skill, strength, and overall survival are offensive to some people. Those are definitely not your people.

Explore the light deep within your soul.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile).

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

I can't get my medicine.