Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.
While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. " If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.