What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.
Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.
It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Enemies were teachers in disguise.
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.
When you like what you like, it makes it easy for your husband to shop for you!
I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.