How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society? How long will it take?
Many a good man I have seen go under.
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men. . . re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Happiness, not in another place but this place. . . not for another hour, but this hour.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
We were together. I forget the rest.
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.