...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.