The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
There's always someone who cares. Someone whose life would simply stop. You just don't know it yet, or you haven't found them yet.
A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.
I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.
I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
There are two kinds of people in America today: those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack and know it, and those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack and don't know it.
Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
Someone once said that there are always flowers for those who want to find flowers. I think that's true. But I also think that there are always cakes for those who want to find cakes.
I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?" "I know who you are, but..." Maia looked dazed. "You look so...so...
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.
Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.
