One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.
A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.
Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not sure we got it right. He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully. Early next day I wrote a short talk ("On Defloration") which he stole and had published in a small quarterly magazine. Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us. Or should I say ideal. Neither of us had ever seen Venice.
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.