Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.