It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.