A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
The thing is, my appearance – that’s never been my moneymaker. I’m fine being small. I’m fine being all the things I am. And I’m happy I’m not supposed to be on the 50 Most Beautiful list all the time, because that would be super f**king stressful.
You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.