Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If you take in more than you can handle, it takes all of your energy to digest it.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.