Which Quotes

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Be that self which one truly is.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.