I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.