Emotions and Feelings

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.

Hope is not victory.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

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.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.

For it is in giving that we receive.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

 

The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others than in showing a great deal yourself.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

Why doesn’t the fellow who says “I’m no speechmaker” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

 

Come good times or bad, there is always a market for things nobody needs.