Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent – something like an infant – deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
I’m a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it’s terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don’t like.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.
The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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