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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of one's conscience.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
For memory has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made.
Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that?'…'Sensible men never tell.'
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are…Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.
