It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.