I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.