What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
To remain young one must change.
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
Being human, we should bear all we can.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
Poetry is a mug's game.