To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

The manifest of gratitude is hundred-fold blessings.

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.