The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
I swam my brains out.
I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.
If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
I went to my first college to play soccer.
As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.