“There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.”

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

The future is purchased by the present.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.