I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Sow good seeds for a good yield.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.