This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.
It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in. . . my business, my career and the roller coaster ride. . . how the people I associated with worked together.
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.