When one must, one can.
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field. . . Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.
There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.