We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.
How happy is the Optimist To whom life shows its sunny side His horse may lose, his ship may list, But he always sees the funny side.
For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, But nurses are bound that they do things for you.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Aunts are discreet, a little shy By instinct. They forbear to pry.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.
. . . we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?
Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn. ' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.