A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone’s short-attention spans.
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you’ve experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It’s not a bad thing; it’s just a fact.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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