She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Nothing amazes me anymore.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
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...
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I...