The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.