I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - George Bancroft,