The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.
I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.