Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.
There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.
Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America,. . . We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. . . . We have to have a clash of ideas.
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.