I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.