Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.