Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.