I'm not a very organized person.
There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.
Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.
Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.
Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.
I feel for young people today. When I came out of law school, yes, we were broke, we had kids, we had problems. But it was straightforward. I didn't have to say, "My God, I am $80,000 in debt, I have to get a job, I have to pay it back, my life is ruined otherwise. " We were able to go forward and work toward building something new, and that's what we did. Today many lawyers are unable to feel free to be advocates.