My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.
I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!
Why do we always fight?” she whispered. “You know why. ” Yeah, she did. “It’s science. ” “Combustible chemistry,” he agreed. “Dangerous.
My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.