My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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?
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.