Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.
I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.
From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.
O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts. . . May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.
Can't really despise people you don't know.
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.
I've long had the idea that the factors that are most important in determining what we believe, how we live, and what we accomplish are matters of accident. That is, we did not choose where to be born, who our parents would be, or what we would look like. Yet those factors play an enormous role in almost everything about is. Wregard to issues of cosmopolitanism, the most obvious point is that how we identify ourselves in terms of nationality, cultural subgroups, and religion are all pretty much a function of where we were born.