Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.William Styron
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Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li... Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example. Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good... The guilty catch themselves. Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it. Hate pollutes the mind. If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves. To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle. Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t... "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you." It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary. Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy. It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside. Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t... Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ... Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor. "What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i... It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice. Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason. Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses. Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u... Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they? A good laugh is sunshine in a house. When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ... No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous. Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break. The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re... Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand. Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about... Age withers only the outside. Where ambition ends happiness begins. The best answer to answer to anger is silence. The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry. A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. People who know the least always argue the most. If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them. What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir. Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe. He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance It is better to live richly than to die rich. On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor... Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them. Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness. We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct... A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it. 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Time moves in one direction, memory in another. 
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. 
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. 
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny. 
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ... 
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin... 
To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life. 
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. 
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! 
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All love is lost but upon God alone. 
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. 
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai... 
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H... 
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl... 
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? 
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort... 
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. 
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey. 
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. 
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most... 
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t... 
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. 
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe... 
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. 
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. 
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. 