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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
Just living isn't enough, said the butterfly, one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis.
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated…
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
