You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
I am not now That which I have been.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
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.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.