A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.