All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Common sense is not so common.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Give up trying to make me give up