Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.