Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
. . . it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.