All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I'd learned my lesson.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.