All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Great deeds, great blessings.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.