They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.
As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.
It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.
To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons