I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews.
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
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.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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.
Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.