I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages – not dirty, base themes, so we’re trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
When you’re famous, you don’t get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don’t see the real people.
It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
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