Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
History is the devil's scripture.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
What goes up must come down.