But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you. . . it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'