Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

Learn how to learn...then start learning

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence, ' he finally told me.

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.