If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.