Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent encourage going along and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

During times of war hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

As I pass it I feel as if I saw a dear old mother sweet in her weakness trembling at the approach of her dissolution but not appealing to me against the inevitable rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience and pointing to a hopeful future.

So when I do Chinese cooking I mix everything together then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors a location where it cannot be argued there are never enough comfortable chairs.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.