Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.
What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.
You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.
I suffocated for hours, until I turned on. . . music.
I can talk to you all day. I just might not say anything though.
When I have it in mind, I write it out.
we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
American public policy is run on a myth.
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim. [. . . ] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.