It is always our inabilities that vex us.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

How we live as leaders matters.

In the grounds of the château was a church said to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in old churches.

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

It is no disgrace to rest a bit.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.