No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.
Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.
The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.
How inappropriate,’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to do all night?
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control...
They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
.....listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of ever...
The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.
This is about your future. Nobody else can make the decision for you.
As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easie...
And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit
The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.
You have this lifetime to make the best of your dreams. Don't wait a moment longer and start right now.
The best part of having your dreams come true is you get to make new ones!
In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.
From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.
It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.
