An idea is salvation by imagination.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
I didn't even breathe.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.