What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
- Topic: Action, Communication, Reputation
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
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The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.
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.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!
No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.