You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything$$$ my mother was in the habit of saying.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library$$$ this republic of letters$$$ where neither rank$$$ office$$$ nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

All things that have been in this world$$$ all things that are or will be in it$$$ have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.