As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self - government.
Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.
90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.
His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility...
If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for...
I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.
As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society.
You cannot blame our decisions on anyone, Moriah. They were all made by you, alone.
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One's own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental {nimit} in that. Really,...
I will not add to the world's problem, I will not leave the world the way I met it; I will strive with every breath of my life to live the world a better place than I met it.
We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.
You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself.
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that...
The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...