It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.