Thank you! Don't forget to confirm subscription in your email.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.
Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.