Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.
Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.
Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...
Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.
Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.
On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.
Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?
I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.
In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, we are beyo...
The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.
There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.
The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.
All death matters." "Only to the living.
Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas
Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.
What we fear too much we often bring to pass.
...hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him.
...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...
