“You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.”

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, ” I must follow them. I am their leader.”

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man’s confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

There’s a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means – whatever that means.

You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Accept certain inalienable truths.

I also like to follow nature’s rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we’re born at this time, we just live it.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.