Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
What goes up must come down.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
The lady's not for turning.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.