I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Thought is free.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
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
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.
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.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.