America is always stronger when we do things together.
I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.
"Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence. "
. . . it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time. . . volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.
I think you have to be extremely strong to be in the police and I couldn't do that at all. I get nervous when a police car is driving past me when I'm in the car, pondering what they're doing or going to.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
We like someone because. We love someone although.