The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.
For rarely man escapes his destiny.
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.
I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.