Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.