Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. 

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

If you are part of a false propaganda machinery, you are fighting for the wrong cause.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and more. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.