If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
