The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.
The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness. . . I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.
Death is the surest calculation that can be made.
Freedom can flow from order. That is not to say that freedom always flows from order because you can have a totalitarian order and you can have an undemocratic order from which freedom will not flow, but that surest way to destroy freedom is to have chaos.
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy. . . may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want to know about. That becomes your complete and utter fascination. That is the surest way to interest a child.