Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.
Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.