To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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