"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."

"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."

"Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them."

"It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience."

"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase."

"I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head."