I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
I regard each sentence as a little wheel. . . Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.
Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.
We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.