Those birds perform a miracle every morning and the world ought to get up and listen.

He was struck by the thought that he was often lonely, even in the midst of many friends.

War does have a way of interfering with one’s most closely held desires.

There is nothing more corrosive to character than money.

I would prefer you did not apologize for anyone else,” she said. “My father always says that if we were as quick to own our own faults as we are to apologize for those of others, society might truly advance.

The world is full of small ignorances,” said a quiet voice. Mrs. Ali appeared at his elbow and gave the young woman a stern look. “We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don’t you think?

Compromises are often built on their being unspoken.

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who’s best at sticking to his story,′ said Ferguson.

It was the cheapest kind of rebuke, to call a woman ugly, but one to which small boys and grown men seemed equally quick to stoop when feeling challenged.

I don’t believe the greatest views in the world are great because they are vast or exotic... I think the power comes from the knowledge that they do not change. You look at them and you know they have been the same for a thousand years.