Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
The mind is the instrument, the flywheel, and the thickest comrade of man. Through it, one can ruin oneself or save oneself. Regulated and controlled, channeled properly it can liberate; wayward and let loose, it can entangle and bind fast.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the whole universe.
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard