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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'
As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk.
