The world is always right. In its judgments, it is always right. For it is not the world that judges, but we.

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

Every seed planted is a promise to the future.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.