"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

"I'd rather sit alone on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

"Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made."

"Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."

"Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management."

"There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch."

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

"I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so."

"My friends are my estate."