Which Quotes

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.