It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters and intends to be the master.

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me but I am very willing to put up with the mistake if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men to render it endurable even when not quite clearly made out which it never can be till the Posterity whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves has sanctioned or denied it while it can touch us no further.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries, but who can tell or who can explain them!