Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
There is always time for failure
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.
We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.
I mostly built stuff that I liked.
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
Planning involves considering how other people may use something.