Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'