It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.
If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.
All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.