Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.
I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.
To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.