I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.