The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart the excision of its memory.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee we get nervous about her and admit censorship.
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand and they it must be confessed with much fear and trembling.
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses a sky without stars abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school and afterward went to work in Tokyo where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
Indeed wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
The dirty little secret is that the pool man who's making $30 000 a year is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy we think to be loyal to a family and clan whose blood is in your own veins.
The great danger for family life in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure comfort and independence lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society which we call Western civilization could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good including life to defend it.
A witness in the sense that I am using the word is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith he does so disregarding all risks accepting all consequences.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.