With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.
Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.
I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrar...
A person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It’s like losing a finger. It’s worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.
Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.
It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ‘I have a dream that one day,...
I’ve worked with volunteers before, he began. It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder t...
But her angry feminism had set as hard as concrete during years of living alongside the tough, hardworking, dirt-poor women of London’s East End. Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a divis...
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought...
Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was n...
The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means.
—Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina
When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I c...
We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good,’ King said,
They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men w...
I went to the doctor, said the woman next to Ethel. I said to him, 'I've got an itchy twat.'[...] She went on: The doctor says to me, he goes, 'You shouldn't say that, it's a rude word.'[...]I says to...
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.