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So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.