ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Resist much, obey little.

Peace is always beautiful.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

Passion precedes prosperity.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

I've been trying to work on my positioning and defensive game.