We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Vigorous writing is concise.