Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
