A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.