"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

"As was his language so was his life."

"When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."

"If virtue precede us every step will be safe."

"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself."

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun."

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."

"And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill."