Returning to a city that one has known and loved fills you with a delicious sense of warmth.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Books are keys that open many doors.
Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is lik...