There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?