My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

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.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

A good liar must have a good memory.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Give up trying to make me give up

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.