All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.