Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart aga...in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having... lived and killed alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In companions That do converse and waste the time together,... Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, There must be needs a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in ac...tion, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Opera once was an important social instrument--especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together... and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this si...mple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a so...mething in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »