The essence of America is an idea: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
The essence of America is an idea: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.