In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

To read without joy is stupid.

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

My mother always told meNo monster lived beneath my bed, But she had failed to warn meIt laid on top of it instead.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.