I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.