I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
At 8, I made a pact with God.
Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.