Which Quotes

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Be that self which one truly is.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.