It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.
It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.
Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.
The real war will never get in the books.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
Real contentment must come from within. You and I cannot change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.
Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.