Life is an ocean and waves are our paths.

Reality is what you look at and what you make of it. All in between is how you are.

Reality is how you look at it

Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also positively harmful.

But who is ever fair in an argument?

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that's on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.