I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.