The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue. . . it needs your indifference.
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes froma weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.
If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments. . . . It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.
Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. . . . Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.