Death the final triumphant lover.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear.
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation and the great goal of the conservative movement as it rose to triumph in the 1980s was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA the EPA and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
Without the element of uncertainty the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be dull routine and eminently unsatisfying.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
For every moment of triumph for every instance of beauty many souls must be trampled.
To play safe I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash the triumph of magic over the brute.
To the press alone chequered as it is with abuses the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments trials and illnesses.
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent that is to triumph over old age.