Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.