Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.
The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.
Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.
Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them; and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments, and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away, --not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers. One sees them passing through various stages, and at last step by step approaching death, which makes them look still more like ourselves.
Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.
I think fine dining is dying out everywhere. . . but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.