So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.