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I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.