I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and