There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.