Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience
So little done, so much to do.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.