Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.