People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing – that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart – is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.