It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.
Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.
Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?
A laxity pervades the popular use of words.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.