a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you cant erase the history that produced them.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you dont, it fills you up with its emptiness.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

Small aim is a crime have great aim.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.