Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it.
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Hate is a lack of imagination.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous. " It makes them feel more real.
We know that we are close to making history.
On board the new Ironsides, I had the Marine guard stationed at the after gun, thirty-five in number, and I think it was conceded that no gun of that heavy battery was worked more efficiently than the "Marine gun" as it was called.