First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
Jon smiled at him. I'm sorry about your wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you how to...
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.