Every story you tell is your own story.
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.
And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.
New Rule: I don't give two fingleberries and a McShit-all that Dumbledore is gay. I never wanted to know who Dumbledore was in the first place. Let alone his sexuality. What concerns me is adults who read 800-page books about magic schoolboys. . . and then try to talk to me about it. If I had the slightest interest in homosexuals with powers, I'd be a Republican.
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.