No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
Just as the soft rains fill the streams, pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings.