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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The years teach much which the days never know.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.