People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.