To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.