A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. . . He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.
You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
Nobody needs to worry whether or not I've been tested.