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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination…If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.
People will frighten you about a graduation….They use words you don't hear often…'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim.
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORD'S side.
The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
My verses, I cannot say poems I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Sabastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed.
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
