If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIVAIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.
So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.