Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.