Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
Sydney J. HarrisNorbert 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.
Sydney J. HarrisThe greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
Sydney J. HarrisWe must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.
Sydney J. Harris