Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.
Janies lips part in surprise. She takes it. Feels really strange about opening it in front of him. She wets her lips and examines the box and the ribbon that surounds it. "Thank you. " She says softly. "Um. . . " He clears his throat, "The gift, see is actually inside the box. The box is like an extra bonus gift. It's how we do things here on planet Earth.