Even if a perfect system could be designed, it would still have to operate in an imperfect world.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Love feeds on deception.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the pa...
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...