Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.