The Wandering Mind

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.

This morning, with her, having coffee.

When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

One day the people that didn't believe in you, will tell everyone how they met you.

It is better to be faithful than to be famous.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Never confuse motion with action.

In Germany they came first for the Communist, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.