If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.
If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.
The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.
They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.
The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
Always pack your uniform on top.
People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.
When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’
You can do anything, but not everything.
The secret of life is to validate your existence.
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right peoplethe good and authentic peopleand unsurrounding yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
