The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
Ask
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.