One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Write a page a day. It will add up.
In Globalization 1. 0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2. 0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3. 0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.