Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
Each soul is potentially divine.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
The future ain't what it used to be.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment