I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
Kindness is always fashionable.
A good message will always find a messenger.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.
Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me. ' --Garion
Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?