To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
Friendship with oneself is all important.
Every day do something that frightens you.
We must preserve our right to think and differ.
Whatever come we have to meet it.
It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.
Get out of the way as quickly as you’re not needed.
Everybody wants something.
Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire.