The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.