The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive.
Friends are the sunshine of life.
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.
The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.
Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.
Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.