If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.