The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
Lincoln, the Man of the People
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.
I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.