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“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.’
“Sometimes I get tired of doing the hard things.”
“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”
“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone’s world, even if that someone is an eight-week-old puppy.
He cried with my pains, physical and mental. And when I stopped struggling toward the wall, he went into a paroxysm of joy, a celebration of triumph for us. And all I could do to reward him was to lie still and no longer attempt to destroy myself. And he assured me it was enough, it was a plenitude, it was a joy. I closed my eyes.
“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear,”
Get some rest. It’s the real healer.”
“If I said that, I regret it. It is not a thing one should say to a friend. I do not remember it.” He smiled faintly. “If you do not remember it, then neither shall I.”
The knowledge that I must do the first somehow made the second seem more possible.
I longed desperately, and feared with the fear known only to a boy whose love is two years older than he is.
When considering a man’s motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”
It would not do for the royal entourage to be late for the wedding; it was bad enough that the groom was not attending.
I treated them all with great courtesy and later wondered if that might not be the secret of the harmonious household, that all servants or royalty, be treated with the same courtesy.
