When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

In a major matter no details are small.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

The eminent strategy had won yesterday, but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Abundance is a state of mind, more than a reflection of wealth.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.