The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
Her affection for everything she could love increased.
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.
I don't go by the rule book
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?
I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.
I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'
Nature will not be admired by proxy.
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.
A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.
Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.
You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.
We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?
I love meeting people and helping them.
See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?
