Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Nothing is black or white.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.