Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
To me you have to commit yourself to the sacrifice, because it's so important. Even if people don't agree, they appreciate commitment.
There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person.
Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [. . . ] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.