“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Every wall is a door.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

When you learn to be alone and not feel lonely, is when you learn to be free.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

She is content, free and breathing with ease, the reward of her patience.

You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

Freedom is a spontaneous letting go of all desire and effort.