Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.