Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war de….

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief..

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream..

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing..

Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong..

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business..

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something..

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have b….

The problem with death is absence.

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster..

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was i….

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything in….

A library should be like a pair of open arms..

For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstr….

Live in the past, but don't remember too much..

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved.

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearin….

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen..

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company..

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge….

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is th….