George P. Burnham

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

If she doesn’t acknowledge what happened, then how can we trust that she is going to be different in the future?

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.