If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
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If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
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But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
