One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.
More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.
Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.