The task of building a great university is never simple.
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.