Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Understanding is a two-way street.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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.
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.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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