If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife.
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner's eyes. You will feel better.
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.
There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.