O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat. " She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.
To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.
Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.