It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

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

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.