No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

We can only learn to love by loving.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.