I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
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.
Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.
I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
. . . the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.
A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.