Give me the power to love

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.