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.
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 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.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.