There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.