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.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Understanding is a two-way street.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Courage is exhilarating.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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