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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.