To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
All of life is a constant education.
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
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.
Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.
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