You create your opportunities by asking for them.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.