Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.