“It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true”
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“It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true”
“But facts are facts and flinch not”
“The reality is, all over the country the number of people in the homeless condition continues to grow. It will grow significantly as far as the eye can see. It's near crisis right now. It will certainly get there”
“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth”
“We come too late to say anything which has not been said already”
“They that have lived a single day have lived an age”
“Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth”
“Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him”
“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass”
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried”
“The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author”
“Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life”
“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”
“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be”
“What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.”
“The real truths are those that can be invented”
“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics”
“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it”
“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune”