Morelli got Briggs a glass. Don’t let the curtains on the windows and the toaster in the kitchen fool you. I’m even less civilized than she is.
Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
Traces of the same spiritual concepts and symbolism that enlighten the Egyptian texts are found all around the world among cultures that we can be certain were never in direct contact. Straightforward...
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
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...
A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.