We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays fo...
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wi...
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.
No friendship is an accident.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
The party at its best has always been a modern party.
