Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.

I feel like Christianity gets very misconstrued sometimes. People don't realize that every day is a normal day just like anybody else, but we're just trying to improve every day. It's not about putting anybody down or telling anybody they're wrong. It's more about trying to do what's right for your own self.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

No man knows himself as an original.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.