He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.

Life is an affair of people not of places

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears

One always needs readjustment in his life at some or the other time.

In baseball, as in life, the true measure of a person is how they handle adversity

Forever isn’t long at all, Christopher, as long as I’m with you.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.