If you are an american, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
If you have no faith, you’ve lost your battle.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
They say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
I accept reality and dare not question it.