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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Youve got to live life to write a book about it.
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If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...
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I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
