Concepts become forces when they resist one another
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.
The middle path is the way to wisdom
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.