Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.
Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.
A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.
For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.
We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.