If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.