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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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There is no future for a people who deny their past.
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
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Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
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Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
