Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.[Надо, чтобы за дверью каждого довольного, счастливого человека стоял кто-нибудь с молоточком и постоянно напоминал бы стуком, что есть несчастные.]
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
All the people like us are We. And every one else is They.
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
