You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
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.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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.
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.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Understanding is a two-way street.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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