Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.