In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.