Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.
I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.
I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.