The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.