We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers – a living prismatic gem…. it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
The slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless We Shelter You America. The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them… from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
In an incredible perversion of justice, former soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisonous chemicals on Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have been damaged by them, appeal to the people for sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant Agent Orange are discussed at length, but not one single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware of has even mentioned the effects of the people who still live in those regions of Vietnam. It’s as outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized had finally made them sick. The staggering monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as in a Kafka novel.
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.