Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

In a fight, If you don't take challenges someone does.

In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

The only thing He forgets is our sins.

Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.