Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. . . each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner dishonesty or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing or is it both. . . The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us. . . . At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.
Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: "Follow Me. " (John 21:20-22)
In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that
No man can be judge to his own cause.