The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
