It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
That which costs little is less valued.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
An idea is salvation by imagination
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.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
