The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10. 9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
The coming being is whatever being.