But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
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.
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Sunlight is painting.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
