When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free.
As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.
Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.
No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.
I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.
Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.
In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. . . You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.