Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Abiding fully means praying much.
One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.