Earth was interesting, and worth the money I paid for it.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.
Making the decision to have a child is momentousâit is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
To live is so startling, it leave little time for anything else.
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.