Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.
Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
The obvious is obviously wrong.