People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
I have always known a thing before it happens.
When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom. " Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?
Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone. . . . Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you. . . . There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective stories until there were democracies, because the very foundation of the detective story is the thesis that if you're guilty you'll get it in the neck and if you're innocent you can't possibly be harmed. No matter who you are.