Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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?