It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U. N. Security Council.
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
We can do anything we want to as long as we give it everything we've got.