I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.
School is a foretaste of life.
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
I don't know how anybody can say that who looks at what's happening to our young people and what's happening to our country, all because of guns. The NRA is putting themselves in a position where people will no longer trust them. They've been trusted in the past, but now their credibility is on the line.
If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.
If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.