A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
A word grows to a thought- a thought to an idea- an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep- leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it.
Success breeds confidence.
The sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.
The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing.
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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