One can find traces of every life in each life.
Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.
I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.
Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
I had. . . come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
Business is at the heart of America and always has been.
I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.