I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.