Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.