There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife your tolerance level goes down and you realize that with someone much younger there's nothing really to talk about.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger, give if thou art asked for little, by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

What difference is there do you think between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects provided they are content and don't know what they miss and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Never never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

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