Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
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You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
