“What we see in history is not a transformation”

Which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.

It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning

Bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire!

And no one lifts a hand.

A most burning question of time, though.

A passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations

Yelling and screaming won’t really get what I want from my kids.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.

The worst reaction someone can have is, “eh.”

Security wins many battles but loses the security war.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.