To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.
If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.
It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.