No man is a devil in his own mind.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

If you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Anothers bread costs deare.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.