Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have it.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

You have to know how to defend yourself.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?