A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching. . . You are going outside your immediate grasp.
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.
Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.