Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.
Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.