Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.