I have come to understand what being a public person means. I don't let things I can't do anything about bother me.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.
In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.
If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.