Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
The day of individual happiness has passed
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.