As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
. . . but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
Socialism is a monster, which will die.
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.