Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
