The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.