"The self persists like a dying star,..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”

“Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.”

“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.”

“The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.”

“A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.”

“You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.”

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

“Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.”