Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
I say to mankind, be not curious about god. for I, who am curious about each, am not curious about god - I hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank god, I am as good as the best.
The real war will never get in the books.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Be curious, not judgmental.