Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

i also say you can tell your true friends, by the ones who put a bucket by your bed when your drunk and going to be sick - (my quote - so proud)

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.