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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?