If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
For better to come, good must stand aside.
Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.