Keep cool and you command everybody.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.