No one is saying that you've broken any laws, Mr. President... We're just saying it's a little weird that you didn't have to. (About PRISM).
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
