Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.
A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it. " And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there. " So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.