Quotes
Quotes about Sin
When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.
...it is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
Pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
