Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
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.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
A lie never lives to be old.
