Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

I'm a pilot, Phil, and you can take this to the bank: you can't fly the Concorde when the wing's on fire.

I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.

The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed…