I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity. Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Creativity is not enough. . . the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.
Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved. The second season of Underground does explore Canada's role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me.
He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life