Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Hatred -- The anger of the weak.

Imagination is intelligence having fun.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

A conservative is a politician who wants to keep what the liberals fought for a generation ago.

Happiness is not always measured in smiles.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.

What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.