Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.