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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and...

I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men...

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. - ...

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees y...

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance...Look at rejectio...

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live togeth...

My idea of democracy is that the weak is improved as much as the strong. Democracy is an impossible thing unless the power is shared by all....

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared...

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. ...

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea , at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the...

Love of our neighbour consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone, to do what good we can when we can, and to bear, exc...

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will n...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brigh...

Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. ...

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt, B...

I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow be...

Every now and then, somewhere, some place, sometime, you are going to have to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point about who you ar...

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words - 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is a...

The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your para...

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. - Margaret Mead (1901-1978) ...