“Anyone can run 20 miles. It’s the next six that count.”

You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.