Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher’s reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written...

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right...