I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.
I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I’d been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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