Obscure Scholar

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

"Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be...when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am."

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."

"Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness."

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."

"Make up a story...For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul."

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway."

"We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas."

"Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves."