We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.