Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.
Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
