Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

He didn't care if Matt made him cuddly or made him hornier than he'd ever been or even made him a lovesick fool. James was keeping him. Hopefully Matt would want to keep James too.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.