Jibin

“You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Four words raced through Truman’s mind: The lightning has struck! “I was fighting off tears,” he later recalled. “It was the only time in my life I think that I ever felt like I’d had a real shock. I had hurried to the White House to see the president and when I arrived I found I was the president. No one in the history of our country ever had it happen to him just that way.” He gathered himself. “Is there anything I can do for you?” he asked the First Lady. “Is there anything we can do for you,” Eleanor Roosevelt answered. “For you are the one in trouble now.”
― A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

“Now we may be well assured that the case was not thus, but far otherwise, with the early Christians. Had it been thus, Christianity never would have expanded from an obscure sect of the despised Hebrews into the religion of the Roman empire. When their enemies said, “See how these Christians love one another” (a remark not likely to be made by anybody now), they assuredly had a much livelier feeling of the meaning of their creed than they have ever had since.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty