There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

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 look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?