you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.