Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.