Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.