If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
I went to an art high school in Washington D. C. , and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was horrible - couldn't draw, couldn't sketch, couldn't do anything. I remember at one point I came to terms with the fact that I had to work my ass off to do well and that's exactly what I did. I drew and drew and drew, and it worked - I ended up getting the award for best artist and went on to apply to design school because I loved it so much. I think it really speaks to the idea that you can in fact excel at whatever you put your mind and your heart to.
Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.