You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness.
In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.
When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.