Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.
Children don't make judgments about which details are important. . . a child captures them all.
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.
. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.
. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
When you are unhappy about something, you can always find thousands of other things to be happy!
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.
In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water