Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

Parisian men make love all day and have no time to work; American men work all day and have no time for love.