The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James Madison

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
Lady Gaga

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John C. Maxwell

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
Leonardo DiCaprio

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Henry Ellis

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
Erich Fromm

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer

Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive.
Jesus Christ