Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
I believe God was in Christ, not will be, perhaps, maybe if we're good boys and girls, it's over, it's done, we are one people, race is a violation, nations are a violation.
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.