There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the... other fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?--No--no, 'tis your lean, hungry men who are conti...nually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the head...ing of "public relations." Without it, America would be grim indeed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities... of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously t...oward an idea of extension of boundaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't bee...n punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leave...s us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go.... It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here wh...o tried to hustle the East."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »