I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.