I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

The Creeds were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- controversies which are now named sometimes after the supposed leaders and representatives of a particular interpretation of the Christian religion, and sometimes after the particular interpretation itself. I need not now attempt to make precise these heresies, as they came to be called. It is necessary only to point out that in various ways all these heresies were simplifications. By means of them the revelation of God to men was made, or appeared to be made, less scandalous. On the other hand, the various clauses of the Creed were not formulated as a new simplification, or as an alternative-ism. They were nothing more than emphatic statements of the Biblical scandal, statements which brought into sharp antagonism the new simplification and the old, Scriptural, many-sided and vigorous truth.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends Of free thoughts in his travels for variety, He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends, That without any danger of a riot, he Might for long lying make himself amends; And singing as he sung in his warm youth, Agree to a short armistice with truth.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.