Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]
Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.