If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.