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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.