Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.
My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?