So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.