Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

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.

Order is heaven's first law.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

Belief in God means Believe yourself, and you know who God is!

~Don't forget to cheer for yourself, when you reach the finish line~

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.