That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.