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Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.

Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Love, I think, is like fire. We do not know where it comes from, or why it gives us light, but it is what we use to hold back the darkness.

All our errors, foolish mistakes, and unthinking cruelties are still alive to be recollected and often regretted, but the gods seldom give us another chance to be the better person we wish now we could have been.

One of the most terrible things about growing old is having to remember. Not because life is dreadful, but because we take so long to become ourselves, while everyone who met us during our journey knows only the person that we were then.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It’s hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.