Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

We have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.