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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways.
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? They come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
My mother said to me, If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
