Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.