The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

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.

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

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.

Just don't be afraid to be who you are and you will be successful.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.

National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.