Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.