Growth always involves the risk of failure.
Follow the grain in your own wood.
A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.
Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.