All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.