And do Men despise ignorance?’ I asked. ‘No,’ he said, ‘they prize it above all things—all things!—but only so long as it remains invisible.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Sow good seeds for a good yield.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.