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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!