The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.
What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?
Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.
It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.