Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
Nothing's far when one wants to get there.
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.
Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his political life.
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.