Whatever brawls disturb the street There should be peace at home.
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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
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Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream,...
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And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return.
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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine,...
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My God, my life, my love, To Thee, to Thee I call; I cannot live if Thou remove, For Thou art all in all.
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For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is
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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
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If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
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God gives us our relatives--thank God he lets us choose our friends.
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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
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INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
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Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
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Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.
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