Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And. . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.