There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.