Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.
NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.