One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

People who keep journals have life twice

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.