“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.”

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.

It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.

It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.

Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.

It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

Being around their presence means shit if their heart is miles apart.

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.