We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The average person thinks he isn't.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.