Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

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.

A person with victim mentality cannot find himself, his life mission, and go towards his aims

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.

The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison to an inward one.

If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.