If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
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.
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.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.