It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.