with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

I guess love laughs at history a little.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

Men so sick they are dying of death.

It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”.

Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

Sales bring out the worst in people.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions.

Progress is the ultimate motivation.