Seneca

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on..

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?