Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.
Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.
Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.
Stop selling. Start helping.
It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay. "
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. . . humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.