A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.