Golf is a good walk spoiled.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought – an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first – that is the idea.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
We teach people how to treat us.
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
Do any of us really have a clue? We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Or what word will come up in a conversation that will change our lives. You can be in the shower and scrubbing under your arm and find a lump that wasn’t there yesterday. I’m doing things here and now. Life is evolving. Every day life evolves.
A tiny leak can sink a ship.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.
It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.
These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.
