How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart. . . how it lifts us up and brings us down. . . the wonder of life.
Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.
A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.
It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.
Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.
Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.