When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they read more

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a read more

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. read more

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought read more

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write read more

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered read more

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.