The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.