[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

Silent streets have many things to say.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.