It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Maybe they were terrorists!
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.