What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

A new kind of American—a new kind of thinker and a new kind of citizen—needs to arise now. And quickly. We the People, We the Problem For too many decades, Americans have been chronically distracted by less important things, not bothering to engage in serious self-examination.

Comparison is the death of joy.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability

Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.