The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.