Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

The things I do are known to the world, but why I do them is my secret alone.

In this game against fate, I am losing. Miserably.

Have faith, hope, and charity, that's the way to live successfully.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.