We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
And in today already walks tomorrow.
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.
Being fired is something. . . You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.
Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
I don't really get into the power sufficiently, and that's also a problem for me.