The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness. . I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.