The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up.
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C. S. ) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed. " "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me. ' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.