In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
I've always been a slave to my heart.
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
To be successful, one must take chances.
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.
There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year. . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.
I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.