Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.