Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.
We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.
You look at the top five right now and see guys like Kelvin Gastelum, who I've beaten, Carlos Condit, who I've beaten, Robbie Lawler, who I've beaten. How are those guys more notable than I am, and I'm the champion of the world?
The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm.
