Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.