[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.