…he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it’s happening to him. Very post-modern.
Nothing amazes me anymore.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.
Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.