If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.
If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
Melancholy is no bad thing.