Oneself Quotes

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Hold me here, where I feel less like a stranger to my own laughter. Where it’s easier to believe things happen for a reason or maybe, at least, out of a thousand winding roads my life might take, I will still find one that fits me.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.