560 Followers 572 FollowingMan's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
602 Followers 581 FollowingNatives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
599 Followers 595 FollowingThe surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
577 Followers 479 FollowingOh, life is a glorious cycle of song,br A medley of extemporanea; brAnd love is a thing that can never go wrong; brAnd I am Marie of Romania.
577 Followers 566 FollowingThe attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
570 Followers 707 FollowingThe awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
600 Followers 796 FollowingWhen a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
616 Followers 779 FollowingOnce conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
565 Followers 592 FollowingDemocracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
557 Followers 784 FollowingYou can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
622 Followers 598 FollowingIf you're robbing a bank, and your pants suddenly fall down, I think it's okay to laugh, and to let the hostages laugh too, because come on, life is funny.
556 Followers 731 FollowingCultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
619 Followers 574 FollowingHe lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
625 Followers 496 FollowingGolf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.
589 Followers 594 FollowingThe major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.