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The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
Any religion…is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
[Richard] Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win … and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come, and gone. It's time for change in America.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
And the wind shall say: Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
