The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it.
~ James Baldwin
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
~ Mark Twain
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Even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.
~ William Gibson
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In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt
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It’s easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is true that two wrongs don’t make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn’t make a right, either.
~ James Baldwin
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