Earth laughs in flowers.
Reality is a sliding door.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought – with these I deal.
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
Poverty consist in feeling poor.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
