Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.