The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
Tact is good taste in action.
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.