We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

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.

You could do a lot worse.

Do not give them a piece of your mind but a piecepiece of God's LOVE

...success is when those who know you best respect you most.

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

Only you have the power to change your thoughts. Alter your thoughts and you alter your world.

The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.

The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.