When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.
A century is about events. A decade is about people.
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.