You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.