It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.
All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.