Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.
... we each have our fleeting hour.
I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.