It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.