The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
