Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. "
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods. . . and real ethics reform at City Hall.
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.