The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Home is where the books are

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.