Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago. ' You don't and it wasn't.
It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
The frozen ocean. . . of Boston life.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future. This is right around the millennium, right around 1999, when I wrote it. The Sopranos certainly reflected that; when I saw that on the air, I was like "Oh my God, I'm not alone. " But it doesn't seem that the culture really caught up with that. George W. Bush won two elections. . . I'm not even trying to say this from a political standpoint. I think there is a resonance to the kind of glory of that period, and the foreboding of what happened.
The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.
There's no such thing as an independent person.