Topica from Afar discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities. Being...
The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in...
You will know who wants you to succeed by the way they see the good in you before they ever see your flaws.
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
Teaching at any level on any subject is the most rewarding thing you can do. I just love to see the expression on the face of a student who gets it for the first time. Just watching the learning...
And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
Try to understand where you are going and where you are, and it seems like your life has no meaning. But when you look back, the patterns emerge, and if you project yourself forward starting from...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...