The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
