The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.