There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.