My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Fear is incomplete knowledge
I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what. . . I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.
It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.