It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God
prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
you must not use wood to put out the fire.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.