It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.

Donating your time to an unworthy situation is spending your emotional cash to bankrupt your dreams ~Bluenscottish

A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.