"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness. '
. . . in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.