Love is another name for deep understanding. Where there is no understanding of the other one doesn’t truly love the other.
Madness and genius is merely a matter of degrees.
Those of our ancestors who felt compelled to define deity in physical form, sun-worshippers must have been closest to science
Success: The fruitful confluence of favourable circumstances.
Crying. What a shame some don’t cry! Crying is most associated with cowardice. It is purity that brings tears.
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
You wouldn’t employ an illiterate as a peon but with the support of many other illiterates he can be your minister.
More people fail than they succeed. Yet few are trained to cope with failure in good grace, thus compounding the misery.
It has now become boring to blame terrorism for all the ills of bad governance globally. Time to identify the real culprits and tackle them in earnest.
It’s human to fear isolation for your convictions. But remember that every so often a single Galileo or Darwin had truth on the whole planet.