The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Sunlight is painting.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Dare to risk public criticism.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.