Words worth keeping

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.