It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Beginnings are always messy.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

Headlines twice the size of the events.