“Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.”

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”

“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”