Reading is seeing by proxy.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Her laughter was my favorite symphony.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.

The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.