You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.