One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. 632
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! 1.33K
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you 762
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing 2.42K
I’m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again 1.91K
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” 684
“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.” 647
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before white men came, and Indian said simply: “Ours”. 2.15K
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. 1.34K