Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
Understanding is a two-way street.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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.
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.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
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.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
All of life is a constant education.
You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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.
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
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