Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easie...r. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early child...hood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got i...nto the dumpling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I thi...nk, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we ...say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it i...s beset.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the capsule biography by which most of the people knew one another, I was understood to be an Air Force pilot whose family was ...wealthy and lived in the East, and I even added the detail that I had a broken marriage and drank to get over it.... I sometimes believed what I said and tried to take the cure in the very real sun of Desert D'Or with its cactus, its mountain, and the bright green foliage of its love and its money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »