Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, read more

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most read more

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when read more

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to read more

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.