Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. . I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,. and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout. . . "Yes. ". I want to know if you can get up. weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. . I want to know what sustains you. when all else falls away.
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.
Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.