In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

People fall in love, but have to climb out.