to everything there is an end - except fear.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Those who are growing great are always asking “why?” If they fail or lose, they ask “why?” If they succeed or win too, they ask “why?

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

A naive dream is extremely powerful.