I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.