Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.