When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Be that self which one truly is.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.