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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
Have a variety of interests…These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
