Mirabeau B. Lamar

When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Round numbers are always false.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.