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.
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
