If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U. S. congressmen.
My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.
Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.
I don’t throw cell phones. I don’t hurt people, I only hurt myself.