It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.