One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.
I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.
I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.
I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.