I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
A smiling face is half the meal.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.