There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.
Abstaining from sex is a small fraction of the chastity process. Your intentions are just as important as the act of sex itself" The Ultimate Guide to Chastity
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
