614 Followers 765 FollowingWhen you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
591 Followers 760 FollowingSpecial-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
582 Followers 707 FollowingProperly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
601 Followers 733 FollowingI believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.
594 Followers 600 FollowingI don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
576 Followers 691 FollowingAn ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.
610 Followers 739 FollowingIn so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
589 Followers 746 FollowingArranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
597 Followers 779 FollowingFor a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes.
613 Followers 712 FollowingI cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
578 Followers 770 FollowingHumor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
566 Followers 486 FollowingI have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
578 Followers 533 FollowingThe First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.