There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?