So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
Civilization begins with distillation
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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