What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.