The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.