In the final analysis we are our own betrayers.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
You may delay, but time will not.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
Movement is knowledge. Art is perception
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
Life will be peaceful if you can fill your heart with an abundance of love.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tea...