If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.