Better is the enemy of good.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
My life is a struggle.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
To know fulfillment, nourish what is for the belly and not the eye.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
