Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when we cry. Now is the season, wisely long, Of sadder thought and graver song, When ailing souls grow well and strong. Oh hearken when we cry. The feast of penance! Oh so bright, With true conversion's heavenly light, Like sunrise after stormy night! Oh hearken when we cry. Oh happy time of blessed tears, Of surer hopes, of chast'ning fears, Undoing all our evil years. Oh hearken when we cry. Chastise us with Thy fear; Yet, Father! in the multitude Of Thy compassions, hear!
The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable. . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.
I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.
I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.