It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in a natural way. Intelligence is there. Emotions can come. Everything can play, but inside there is total serenity and peace. No planning, no strategising, no personal identity is there. Just the space of pure being. It is what we are, but we dream and believe we are not.
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.