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A single fact can spoil a good argument.

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

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It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.

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But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

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Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

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Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!

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Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

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Measure your life in love.

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