He and his teammates were the Princes of the City, only they were high school kids instead of New York City narcotics detectives,
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.