I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.