“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
“And now, tonight, we're living through the bitter part, or maybe the painful, burning part. But more sweetness will come, sooner or later. Trust that it will.”
“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”
“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”
“He ran his finger down the hardcover keyboard of book spines. Individual memories of each, particularly his first experience with every title, burned through him”