Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.