Effective action is always unjust.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Humility is attentive patience.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.