God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.