Stan Kenton

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

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

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

There’s no limit to the things you can do.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.