By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.
You always knock yourself on the tenderest places.
A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.
The world is a big place but there is so little room in it.
Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fun...
How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill-more of each than you have-inspiration work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity… B...
The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor, when he has something to eat.
Wrong Question: How to love? Right Question: Why am I afraid to love? Wrong Question: Why do you love me? Right Question: Do I love myself as much as you do? Wrong Question: Why does love hurt? Right Question: Why do I live in fantasies and expect so...
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.
People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they're like, 'Hey! All right, all right, all right!'
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.
I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
Locate your place in God. It is a place of GOLD
I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
The Russian soul is a dark place.
