God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.
Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other.
The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.
I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.
Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.
Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.
There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.
. . that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.
I fear we may live to see another revolution.
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.
We may divide characters into flat and round.
Enjoy your life and put a smile on your face, no matter how hard it may seem.
May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis