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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.