Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime.
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause. . . .
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.
There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.
The whole world can believe in you but that won't mean a thing if you don't believe in yourself too.