Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.
That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.
When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want. On some level it's really wonderful and gratifying, but on another level it's rather disturbing. I'm sure you've spoken to movie stars and wondered: How do these people survive without babysitters?
Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?