Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what god is doing.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
My hopes were never brighter than now.
Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of lovely.
Women and elephants never forget.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I'm glad I was a teacher.