To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
Life is short, break the rules.
There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.