The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education and is not made a fool by it may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts in speech or on paper some style.
It is possible for a kid from east Texas raised in south central LA and Carson who believes in his dreams commits himself to them with his heart to touch them and to have them happen.
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Even at our birth death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.
If a cow walked into this room I'd probably walk out. I could milk it but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that mostly because he loved doing it himself.
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages our own meatloafs our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
My dad was a big believer in treating people well oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect not even my mother.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
If we are to survive we must have ideas vision and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.