T.R. Wallace Quotes

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

Every person dies. Not every person really lives.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.