There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Everything helped a little bit, at first; but nothing really helped.
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.
I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. by virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
What should young people do with their lives today? many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in english departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
You can’t compete with walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. it violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
I recognize the republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank god, I am as good as the best.