What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger. , Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren. ]
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that.
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.
Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.
The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.
The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.