Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and. . . the third I can't remember.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.