596 Followers 687 FollowingRead not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
583 Followers 789 FollowingWe shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started-- and know the place for the first time.
672 Followers 584 FollowingNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
626 Followers 799 FollowingThe difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
594 Followers 641 FollowingAll government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
596 Followers 487 FollowingMy life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
602 Followers 635 FollowingCensorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
630 Followers 721 FollowingOn the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died
601 Followers 810 FollowingFor the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
562 Followers 788 FollowingToo many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
625 Followers 659 FollowingOne of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
592 Followers 753 FollowingIt was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
621 Followers 762 FollowingBe entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
569 Followers 766 FollowingA nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
1.5M Followers 284 FollowingActor/Director/Writer/ I pretend to be other people... In real life that's considered a personality disorder. If you get paid to do it its called acting.
633 Followers 724 FollowingThere is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
598 Followers 686 FollowingThe true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops?no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
597 Followers 760 FollowingA well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.
576 Followers 778 FollowingIf wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.