All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
One's first responsible job is the great revealer - far more than school.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you're picking shrapnel out of them.
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.