Anything that just costs money is cheap.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.