I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b. s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.
Only if God tells me to come back. No other way.
Those. . . who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.