No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.