Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

When we feel too drained to move forward, God is right there with us, ready to tenderly revive and restore us.

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

Just live every day like it's your last day and be the best person that you can be.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.