Love is what you've been through with somebody.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing.
I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.
There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.