Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
I didn't even breathe.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?