May Quotes

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, ‘Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?’ They want that.

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.

We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.