Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure. . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger. , Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben. ]
The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.
Write a page a day. It will add up.
Well I've had a happy life.