Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
