You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization. . . that's all we need to do.
It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.