People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James A. Baldwin

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James A. Baldwin

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
Bill Maher

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul Sartre

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Jean-Paul Sartre

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Charles Darwin

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Janis Joplin

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
David Ogilvy