A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
To leave the world richer – that is the ultimate success.
Change means the unknown.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
What one has to do usually can be done.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.