Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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