When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
My art and profession is to live.