Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

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.

The bond of love must be kept strong.

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."--Mike Mankoff

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.

Dogs live longer than rappers.

Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.