And Quotes
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.
Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.
There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.
I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.
I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing
I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
Follow the truth to life and love what you do... Be passionate about it to the point where you’re willing to do anything for it.
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
You can have children and love them with all your heart and soul, and love your family, and it's still OK to have a fire in you. That doesn't have anything to do with your family.