Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
