Death is the end of our ephemeral life and beginning of infinite eternal life.
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.