I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

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

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.