I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.
As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.
Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.
You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.
Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period. . . If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.
People cultivate these fully formed personalities.