No one know what he can do till he tries.
The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.
Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.
The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.
I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
You're always being cast for what you've been in last.