All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.