Which Quotes

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

God's first creature, which was light.