Self-centeredness is a natural outgrowth of one of the toddler's major concerns: What is me and what is mine...? This is why most ...toddlers are incapable of sharing ... to a toddler, what's his is what he can get his hands on.... When something is taken away from him, he feels as though a piece of him--an integral piece--is being torn from him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys th...at do not turn to dross in one's hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Would you--be good enough--" Alice panted out, after running a little further, "to stop a minute--just to get--one's breath again...?" "I'm good enough," the King said, "only I'm not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be a...ble to remove their trash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of h...unger! I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands." 'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The purity of today will invest us like a breeze, Only be hard, spare, ironical: something one can... Tip one's hat to and still get some use out of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only wa...y to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's true we Americans don't know very much about you Japanese and never did. And now I realize you know even less about us. You c...an kill us, all of us or part of us, but if you think that's going to put the fear of God into the United States of America and stop them from sending other flyers to bomb you, you're wrong--dead wrong. They'll come by night, and they'll come by day--thousands of them. They'll blacken your skies and burn your cities to the ground and make you get down on your knees and beg for mercy. You wanted it. You asked for it. You started it. And now you're going to get it. And it won't be finished until your dirty little empire is wiped off the face of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one i...nto the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »