Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.

Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

I think sometimes you don't understand how to convey an idea, depending on the moment you're living in.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.