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It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King.
Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.
Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what makes you go beyond the norm.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
