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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall1924–2014
If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. 37
All splendid things are rare.
Cicero107–43 BC
I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I’m not a crook.
Richard Nixon1913–1994Televised press conference with 400 Associated Press Managing Editors at Walt Disney World, Florida. (November 17, 1973)
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962My Day (1935–1962)
Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret Mead1901–1978Attributed in The Quotable Woman (1991) by the Running Press, p. 53
Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 19.In context
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 17.In context
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Pulses and impulses both come from the heart.
JMJason Mechalek
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
JBJacob Braude
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826