“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
–Margaret Atwood
“One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.”
–William Ellery Channing
“The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into Freedom.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life does not consist mainly–or even largely– of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s mind.”
–Mark Twain
The great humorist himself and the excellent Ken Burns documentary about him