The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
On all the peaks lies peace.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
Life must be lived as play.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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