Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for the money, the limousines or the girls? The answers are: no, no, yes yes yes!
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.