Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24