Be confident, not certain
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
