There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

I am troubled, immeasurablyby your eyes. I am struck by the featherof your soft reply.The sound of glassspeaks quick, disdainand concealswhat your eyes fightto explain.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Make haste slowly.

I let the American people down.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.