Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting

Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end