People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

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.

A living fool is worth less than a dead hero.

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

We all need to believe in something. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Something to fight for.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.