Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.

And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.

Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears, Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.

I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.

The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.