Which Quotes

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.