Which Quotes

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.