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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

- Henry James | Art and the Artist Quotes

Deep experience is never peaceful.

- Henry James | Experience Quotes

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.

- Henry James | Life Quotes

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

- Henry James | Thinking and Thought Quotes

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

- Henry James | Happiness Quotes

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out, you must stay out. And to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand.

- Henry James | Happiness Quotes

Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

- Henry James | Helping Other People Quotes

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

- Henry James | Right Quotes

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out; you must stay out, and to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand.

- Henry James | Goals Quotes

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

- Henry James | Success Quotes