The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.
I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin
The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.