The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.
I am really puzzled to understand myself.
It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part of the blueprint for America, and that is the recipe for the religious diversity that we have today.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason. . . to write for me.