Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
You can't make cheese from rats. . . . It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.