I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.