The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Euthanasia. . . is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.