Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.

They arrested us after breakfast.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

I want us to invest in you.

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

Every day, I walk with my dog - summer, winter (it gets -20 F in Saint Paul), rain or shine. The nicer the day, of course, the longer the walk.