It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.