Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

He could always go back to be a shepherd, but he had a dream. That's doesn't happen to just anyone.

Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.

At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.

Don't be rushed, be sure.

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?