The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
Libraries are the future of reading.
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow's book buyers for today's dollars, especially when it's obvious that the source in question doesn't have any more dollars to give you.
If it must be done, it's best done bravely.
Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.
I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.