If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting. . . if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same;. . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it. . .
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.
Caelen?” “Aye, lass?” “You were right. ” “What was I right about?” “Kissing. ’Tis a most wondrous thing. ” She could sense his smile.
I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything. . . I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I. . . I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.