One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do.

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.