I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.