Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
That which costs little is less valued.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.