Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.