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When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.
Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.
Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?
People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana
To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.
In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.
You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.
Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.