We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

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.

(...) My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

You can’t live outside the manual of your manufacturer and perform the function He created you for. God’s word is His manual

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

The day is always good, you just have to ignore the bad and look for the good. Remember it takes more muscle to frown then it does to smile, so smile for another day.

I'm not a developer; I am.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

Walking beside you I want for nothing.