It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.