The consequences of our actions take hold of us quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have "improved".

I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

No more slave States and no more slave territory. - Salmon Portland Chase,

I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

If the wind stops, row!

The old pagans had to choose between a brilliant, jangling, irresponsible universe, alive with lawless powers, and the serene and ordered universe of God and law. We modern pagans have to choose between that divine order, and the grey, dead, irresponsible, chaotic universe of atheism. And the tragedy is that we may make that choice without knowing it -- not by clear conviction but by vague drifting, by losing interest in Him. A nominal deist will say: "Yes, of course there must be some sort of Force that created the galaxy. But it's childish to imagine that It has any personal relation to me!" In that belief atheism exists as an undiagnosed disease. The man who says, "One God," and does not care, is an atheist in his heart. The man who speaks of God and will not recognize him in the burning bush -- that man is an atheist, though he speak with the tongues of men or angels, and appear in his pew every Sunday, and make large contributions to the church.

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It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and were kept warm in his mother's hand.

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

The better part of valour is discretion.

The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards decline almost to the vanishing point. Today the [various denominations] don't even have enough authority to keep their members out of mob violence, let alone hold them to difficult standards of theological or ethical or moral excellence.

O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!