For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

I am a nyctophile, and I can't stop or help myself from falling in love for the darkest ends of your soul, rather than the light in your eyes.

When an Angel whispers in your ear, it is your heart that hears thy message.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.