It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
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.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
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.
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.
Work is always an antidote to depression.
Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
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.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
Understanding is a two-way street.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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