I have asked a lot of my emotions--one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was on...e little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To recover a buried treasure without having it disappear miraculously in the process, one must be entitled to it, and also be will...ing--really willing deep in his heart--to share it with the poor and helpless. Buried money, especially silver, gives off a bright glow which comes right up through the earth and can be seen as a dim light on nights when the weather is misty or there is a gentle rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down--very important traits in times l...ike these. In fact, just as soon as a dog comes along who, in addition to these qualities, also knows when to buy and sell stocks, he can be moved right up to the boy's bedroom and the boy can sleep in the dog house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books... offering advice on how to raise them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because oth...ers have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, wit...h men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing--to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all ...thoughts. Not a select party.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »