It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.