The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

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.

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

How could they do this? How could anyone sell another human being? How could anyone buy another human being? I was disgusted.

Analyse it

Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.

Life is what you make it, taking chances based upon your intuition will give you the potential to live life to the full, bringing all your desires to life.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.