Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Knowledge is light.God is light.God is knowledge.

There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky

I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.