We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
