He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".
Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them
In Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single fl...
Never take advice from a donkey.
Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.
Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the conf...
It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.
It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The...
In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.
Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfa...
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about...
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
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