The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
My home is not a place, it is people.