We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in which more than two million Ukrainian Jews died, Ukraine calls on Israel to also recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
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.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
