I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Give up trying to make me give up
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
