Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible.Like I'm a speck of dustfloating in the airthat can only be seenwhen a shaft of light hits it.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

Quotes about marriage are surprised filled.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

The heart of creativity is discipline.