Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impr...opriety onto our own side of the scale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Native American tradition ... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he ...helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At last I feel the equal of my parents. Knowing you are going to have a child is like extending yourself in the world, setting up ...a tent and saying "Here I am, I am important." Now that I'm going to have a child it's like the balance is even. My hand is as rich as theirs, maybe for the first time. I am no longer just a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherei...n these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate, so that being thrown into the balance it may prevent either scale from preponderating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too mu...ch left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant questi...on, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is g...etting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace... can never be secure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »