Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.
The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset.
Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.
If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.
I'm taking these slings and arrows for you, so we can have our borders, so we can get back our jobs, so we can be a safe nation again.