Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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?
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