A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
you must not use wood to put out the fire.
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.
Communism. . . is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.