“The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.”
“The main thing is not to be dead.”
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
“And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if bundling it with twine. Presumably if he talked in circles around the main thing for long enough it would lie there, vanquished, panting on its side, like a roped steer.”
“the main thing is to make history not to write it”