No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed read more

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to read more

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is
regret for the things we did not read more

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is
regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense read more

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/
They came./ He pushed read more

Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/
They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Writing is a craft not an art.

Writing is a craft not an art.

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that read more

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us.

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth
among those who don't.

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth
among those who don't.