The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is read more

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater read more

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it read more

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.