Those men who will not be judged by what they say, may not deserve that we should interest ourselves in what they think.[Ces hommes qui ne veulent pas être jugés par ce qu’ils disent, pourraient bien ne pas mériter plus d’intérêt pour ce qu’ils pensent.]
This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn’t really need to punish us. We’re so very busy punishing ourselves.[to Miss Barton]
There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.[Voilà l’homme tout entier, s’en prenant à sa chaussure alors que c’est son pied le coupable.]
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There are times when it is one’s duty to assert oneself.
Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.[Also known as:]It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.[to Brutus]
Taking responsibility drained all the joy out of life and dried a man to dust.
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit – Life!
