Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
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.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
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.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
