Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
Life begins at eighty.
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.
Elvis Presley? He's God.
I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture, I don't feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily--obviously not completely--moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.
Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.