102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?

JACKSON: When I’m in I’m all in.....

For after all we make our faces as we go along...

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.