Anthony J. D’Angelo

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

If you harbor hatred, anger, and bitterness (towards her), then you are absolutely locked into a bond through those negative emotions.

When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

They (wives) are people who think when the telephone bell rings, it is against the law not to answer it

Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.