A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning. '
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
We can only love what we know.
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light without any cloud. The tree of life groweth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. Myriads of happy spirits are there, and surround the throne of God with a perpetual hymn. The angels with their golden harps sing praises continually, and the cherubim fly on wings of fire! This country is Heaven.
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.
First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.
We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.