You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.