Today is a king in disguise.
The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
