When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.
I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion. . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?
Through others we become ourselves.
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.