Revolution is obstructed evolution.
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
I count only the hours that are serene.
All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into a pattern that scientists and greens have been trying to warn us about for a long time.
All my life I have fought corruption.
Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon. . . One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.
Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?