Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.