Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.