Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.