You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?
Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.
The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.