Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.