When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.