Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
. . . a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.
It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership for Iraq in the future. There may be some transition period where the international community would have to help the Iraqi people put in place a representative government. But that is the goal, not for the United States, or any other nation, for that matter, who might be in such a coalition, if one is formed, to serve as the leader of the Iraqi nation.