There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people. . . The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.